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Tickle
Potter: Flynn, Michael
Group of three figures, porcelain with semi-opaque white glaze, painted in blue, and pinkish-red. Three nude figures, a man, a woman, and a man with a boar-like head, each tickling the waist of the one in front, in a tangled continuous group supported on the toes of one of each figure's feet. The man leans back, and has his left arm behind his back; the woman leans forward towards him with her left arm bent up, and the other outstretched, and the boar-headed man leans right forward so that his back is almost flat.
History note: Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DD, from which purchased on 26 February 2004 by the donors
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 26.4 cm
Length: 34.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2004-04-26) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2003
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: ‘Each piece seems to contain an internal fight, a clashing of gentility and violence, of soft and hard, sensitivity and wantonness. I tend to think that this is partly a result of Flynn’s long-standing interest in the 18th century, which gave us at the same time Meissen, Fragonard, Fuseli, and Goya.’ Paul Greenhalgh, Director, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia
Contemporary Craft
Studio Ceramics
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( blue and red)
Accession number: C.4-2004
Primary reference Number: 98861
Entry form: 603
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: P.14345-R-51
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